Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-10-29

England. The chance l. but faint one, II Il
true, but as It Is not probable that another
VIII arise IN our lifetiBies, Cool and myself
think that we may as well avail ourselves of
II, such rs II Is During the last six months
several frontier commissions have been at
work on the various boundaries OF Zn- Vends,
with view Of discovering whether there
exists any possible means Of ingress or egress
from the country, with the i.sdt that
channel OF communication with the outer
world hitherto overlooked has been discov.
cred This channel, apparently The only one
for have discovered that 1t was by Il that
the native who ultimately reached Mr.. Nj.
kenzies mission station, and whose arrival in
the country, together with the fact Of his ex-
pulsion. for he dill arrive about three years
before ourselves, was for reasons Of their own
kept dead secret by tho priests to whom he
was broughtl, is about TO be effectually
closed But before this Is done a messenger
is TO be dispatched bearing with him this
manuscript, and also one or two letters from
Good TO his friends and from myself 10 my
brother George, whom ii deeply grieves me
10 think / shall never see again, informing
them, as our next heirs, that they are well
come TO our effects IN England, II the court
Of probate will allow them TO take them, in
asmuch as we have made up our minds never
TO return to Europe Indeed it woud be inn
possible for US to leave Zu-Vendis even If we
wished to do so.
The messenger who Is TO 60, and wish him
Joy Of his journey, is Alphonse. For a long
while he has been wearied TO death OF zu-
Vendis and its inhabitants. Oh, oui cest
beau" be says, with an expressive shrug;
"mais je m'ennuie; ce Eest pa chic" Poor
Alphonsei we shall be very sorry to part with
him; but sincerely trust, for his own sake
and n o for tile sake of this history, which is,
think, worth giving to the world, that he
may arrive in safety II be does, and can
carry the treasure we haye provided Linn
with in the share Of bars OF solid gold, he win
b's comparatively speaking. rich man for
life, snA well able to marry his Annette, II
SHE is still III the land OF the living aid will
ing 70 marry her Alphonse.
Anyhow, on the chance | may as well add
a word or two TO dear old Quartermain's mar
rative.
| be died Mt dawn on tile day following that
or which he wrote Che last words on the last
chapter Nyleptha, Good and myself were
present, and most touching and yet in its
way beautiful scene il was An hour before
the daybreak it became apparent to ne
| that he was sinking, and our distress was very
keen. Indeed, Good melted into tears at the
! iden-n fact thatcalled forth the last gentle
flicker OF humor from our dying friend, for
even at that hour he could be humorous
| Good's emotion had, by loosening the muscles.
naturally caused bis eye glass TO fall from its
&C ustomed place. and Qustermain, who al
ways observed tverything, observed this also
AT last" he gasped, with an attempt at
smile, al have seen Good without his eye
| glass;
After that he said no more tn the day
broke, when he asked to be lifted up to watch
| the rising of the sun for the last time
"ln a very few minutes he said, after
those golden gates"
Ten minutes afterward he raised himself
and looked us tixedly in the face
~ nm going a stranger journey than any
we have taken together Think of me some
times,n he murmured. "God bless you all ]
shall wait for you together and with sigh
he fell back dead.
And so passed away character that con-
slider went as near perfection as any it has
ever been my lot TO encounter.
/ lehuer, coleAaht, nuhiofous, aho possessing
many OF the qualities that go to make poet,
he was yet almost uhtlvaied as man OF
action and citizen OF the world. l never
knew any one SO competent TO form an accu-
rate Judgment OF men and their motives. u
have studied human nature all my life, he
would say, "and ought TO Know something
about it" and he certainly did lie had but
two faults-one was his excessive modesty,
4. /. A. 4 :.
to be jealous Of anybody on whom he CON
centrated his affections
Good rend the burial service over him IN
the presence of Nyleptha and myself, and
then his remains were, in difference to the
popular cIamor accorded great public
funeral, -or rather cremation could no
help thinking, however, as marched in thai
long md splendid procession up to the TEN
pie, how he would have hated the whole thing
could he have been there to see it, for he had
a horror Of ostentation
And SO, few minutes before sunset, on tn,
third night after his death, they laid him OF
the brazen flooring before the altar ang
waited for the last ray of the setting sun t.
fall unou his face Presently IL came am